Comment by graemep

> You mean that individual distributions voted/decided separately, multiple times to choose the better tool? Debian has the most democratic voting system and unanimously voted for systemd.

They are influenced by other distros decisions. Debian's justification of adopting systemd starts "Systemd is becoming the de facto standard init system for Linux." https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd

I do not think this looks like a unanimous vote: https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002#outcome

> Booting up a system is a complex domain.

systemd goes far beyond this domain.